Kurt Witthauer

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Kurt Witthauer

Kurt Witthauer (born May 30, 1865 in Eisenach , † February 22, 1911 in Oberhof ) was a German internist . Witthauer was the first to clinically test, scientifically describe and publish the effects of aspirin .

Life

Kurt Witthauer was born as the second son of a general practitioner in Eisenach. He attended the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium, where he passed his Abitur in 1883. He began studying medicine at the University of Jena . After the active semesters he went to Munich , then to Breslau and returned to Jena. In 1888 he passed the state examination here. He received his doctorate in July 1889. med. The dissertation read: "On tetanus puerperalis following two observed cases."

In 1891 he became an assistant doctor in the internal department of the deaconess house in Halle an der Saale . In addition to his practical work, he worked on interesting cases scientifically and published his work in medical writings. In 1893 he became senior physician at the deaconess house.

Kurt Witthauer married Helene Scheibner in 1894, daughter of an architect in Erfurt. The marriage resulted in two sons. At the age of 46, Kurt Witthauer died in Oberhof in 1911 as a result of pneumonia .

Kurt Witthauer: Aspirin, a new salicylic preparation

Services

Kurt Witthauer is referred to by the Deaconess House Halle / Saale as the "father of aspirin". He tested the properties of acetylsalicylic acid on fifty patients, coined the name aspirin and published the first clinical study on the use of acetylsalicylic acid.

literature

  • Gottfried Witthauer: Life pictures Witthauer. The Franconian-Thuringian family Witthauer in life pictures through five centuries. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1958.
  • Uwe Zündorf: 100 Years Aspirin - The Future has just begun. 100 years of aspirin - the future has only just begun. Published by Bayer AG. Leverkusen 1997, OCLC 174457867 .
  • Nicolai Kuhnert: One hundred years of aspirin. In: Chemistry in Our Time . 1999, 33 (4), pp. 213-220, doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.19990330406 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ diakoniewerk-halle.de ( Memento from November 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Karsten Schrör, HK Breddin: Acetylsalicylic acid in the cardiovascular system: 50 years after Felix Hoffmann. Springer-Verlag 1996, ISBN 3-764-35646-4 , p. 8. ( preview in Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Witthauer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1911
Place of death Oberhof